Best-known for his portrayal of Luke Danes, the loyal, brooding and rarely shaven diner owner on “The Gilmore Girls” (WB, 2000 - ), Scott Patterson is a former minor league baseball player who, despite impressive theater experience, got his Hollywood start doing stunts.

Patterson was born September 11, 1958 in Philadelphia, but was raised in Haddonfield, N.J. and Baltimore. He attended Rutgers University, studying comparative literature, but dropped out to study acting in New York. He was exposed to the instruction of Robert Lewis, Sondra Lee and Paul Newman and appeared in Actor’s Studio